Here are the results of my "What is your favorite browser?" survey, here on Mastodon.

michel416 :canada:

@jon I use Google chrome and have no issues with it. I suspect most people use the browser their equipment comes with and do not care too much about it, so the survey results only reflect people who feel very strongly about it. Still some surprising results.

🏴‍☠️ regor

@jon I'm excited about the Servo project: https://servo.org
They're also on the fediverse: https://floss.social/@servo

I really think more engine diversity is a good thing.

Captain Steph

@joeri @jon They report as chrome, for compatibility

zombiewarrior

@jon

havent given your data to enough different companies? give some to vivaldi and opera and brave too

Julian ♪🌻🥥🌴♫

@roger @jon
Yeah, one of the reasons I loved the original Opera was that it had its own engine and other quirks. Some of those quirks are in Vivaldi now but it's still a Chromium browser.

gumbario

@jon Are more smaller, lesser-known browsers really a good choice? I always have doubts when people switch to the latest new shiny browser that nobody knows about. Browsers have access to a lot of sensitive data, like passwords. The next shiny new browser could always also be a scam.

Jon S. von Tetzchner

@sirber @joeri @[email protected]

That is true. We got into an issue where we were being blocked on sites unless we ID as Chrome. Particularly MS and Google sites. Thus there are no stats out there that count current versions of Vivaldi, just old versions.

Jon S. von Tetzchner

@michel416

It is true a lot of people just use what they are given and it does not help when OS vendors make it really hard to try out alternatives or warn against them.

How about trying something better?

Jon S. von Tetzchner

@TFFPrisoner @roger

I hope you still use us.

Jon S. von Tetzchner

@gumbario

I think it is always prudent to be careful with your choice of software. On the other hand, if you know that the browser you use is collecting your data, maybe it is OK to look at alternatives?

Overall I think competition is a good thing. It brings progress. Think about how the browser market would be if the only choice was IE/Edge?

ingolftopf :vivaldi_gray:

@jon
Thank you for your interesting survey.

Of course, such surveys cannot be representative, but they do show trends.

5027 participants are not exactly a small number.

Perhaps we will be able to recruit even more people from the 'Fediverse' for further surveys.

At least 'Vivaldi' has caught up with Apple's Safari.
But I would have liked to see a lot more in favour of Vivaldi.

Even if this can only ever be a snapshot.

I confess that I have "mobilised" something for Vivaldi.
Maybe it has made a difference.

I would have found it rather stupid if Vivaldi had been left behind Apple's Safari, especially on 'Mastodon'.

Further surveys will remain exciting.